Experts say Trump's would-be assassin had an SKS, not an AK-47. What's the difference?
Developed in the 1940s by Russian weapons designer Sergey Simonov, the Samozaryadny Karabin Sistemy Simonova or SKS is a semi ...
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The Birth of the SKS Carbine’s 7.62x39mm Cartridge
Simonov designed the SKS in 1945. His reasons for designing the SKS and the 7.62x399 cartridge are described in a May 2021 article for NRA American Rifleman: “[T]he Russian military began to ...